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From Iraq to Spain, from Germany to Cataluña, from Italy to Yemen, poetry has been for centuries a privileged mode of expression in the Jewish world. Sometimes borrowing from the poetry of the land in which they lived, but always reinventing it in relationship to the Hebrew language and to the Jewish cultural references, the 'medieval' Hebrew poets created an immense, variegated and fascinating corpus. In this book, some of the best specialist of the field analyse different themes and authors of this tradition, providing new insights to well-known authors or proposing less celebrated works as equally worthy of study. As a result of this scholarship, the English reader will be able to penetrate the different social and historical contexts of significant portions of Medieval Hebrew poetry as well as the cultural implications of technical choices apparently neutral.

Hebrew poetry, Medieval --- Jewish religious poetry, Hebrew --- Religious poetry, Hebrew --- Hebrew poetry --- Piyutim --- Medieval Hebrew poetry --- History and criticism

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The first steps in Hebrew secular poetry took place around the turn of the ninth century, under the impact of contemporary Arabic poetry. This impact was so great that some researchers, incorrectly, define the Hebrew poetry as a school which is distinct from the Arabic school only by virtue of its Hebrew language. However, the right way to the essence of medieval Hebrew poetry is not only by revealing and describing its ties with Arabic poetry but also by determining the specific characteristics by which it stubbornly distinguished itself from its Arabic contemporaries. This innovative critical approach is the central feature of this book.

Hebrew poetry, Medieval --- Arabic poetry --- Medieval Hebrew poetry --- History and criticism. --- Arab influences. --- History and criticism --- Arab influences --- Hebrew poetry [Medieval ] --- Spain --- Middle East

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Hebrew poetry, Medieval --- Poésie hébraïque médiévale --- Translations into English. --- Traductions anglaises --- 933 --- 296 --- -Medieval Hebrew poetry --- Geschiedenis van Palestina en het Joodse volk --- Judaïsme. Jodendom --- Translations into English --- -Geschiedenis van Palestina en het Joodse volk --- 933 Geschiedenis van Palestina en het Joodse volk --- -933 Geschiedenis van Palestina en het Joodse volk --- Medieval Hebrew poetry --- Poésie hébraïque médiévale

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"Michael Rand's The Evolution of al-Ḥarizi's Taḥkemoni investigates the stages whereby the text of al-Ḥarizi's maqama collection as we currently know it, on the basis of manuscripts (and the editio princeps), came into being during al-Ḥarizi's travels in the East over the course of approximately the last ten years of his life. The discussion is based on a close examination of the textual evidence, the investigation of a number of relevant literary motifs, and a comparison to al-Ḥarizi's model, the Maqāmāt of al-Ḥarīrī. The book includes a catalogue of fragments of the Taḥkemoni in the Genizah and Firkovitch IIA collections, and some previously unpublished material that can reasonably be claimed to belong to a heretofore unattested version of the Taḥkemoni."--

Hebrew poetry, Medieval --- History and criticism --- Harizi, Judah ben Solomon, --- Taḥkemoni (Harizi, Judah ben Solomon) --- Medieval Hebrew poetry --- Tachkemoni (Harizi, Judah ben Solomon) --- Divan des Charisi (Harizi, Judah ben Solomon) --- History and criticism.

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A thirteenth-century text purporting to represent a debate between a Jew and a Christian begins with the latter's exposition of the virgin birth, something the Jew finds incomprehensible at the most basic level, for reasons other than theological: "Speak to me in French and explain your words!" he says. "Gloss for me in French what you are saying in Latin!" While the Christian and the Jew of the debate both inhabit the so-called Latin Middle Ages, the Jew is no more comfortable with Latin than the Christian would be with Hebrew. Communication between the two is possible only through the vernacular. In Vernacular Voices, Kirsten Fudeman looks at the roles played by language, and especially medieval French and Hebrew, in shaping identity and culture. How did language affect the way Jews thought, how they interacted with one another and with Christians, and who they perceived themselves to be? What circumstances and forces led to the rise of a medieval Jewish tradition in French? Who were the writers, and why did they sometimes choose to write in the vernacular rather than Hebrew? How and in what terms did Jews define their relationship to the larger French-speaking community? Drawing on a variety of texts written in medieval French and Hebrew, including biblical glosses, medical and culinary recipes, incantations, prayers for the dead, wedding songs, and letters, Fudeman challenges readers to open their ears to the everyday voices of medieval French-speaking Jews and to consider French elements in Hebrew manuscripts not as a marginal phenomenon but as reflections of a vibrant and full vernacular existence. Applying analytical strategies from linguistics, literature, and history, she demonstrates that language played a central role in the formation, expression, and maintenance of medieval Jewish identity and that it brought Christians and Jews together even as it set them apart.

Hebrew language, Medieval --- Jews --- Medieval Hebrew language --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism --- History --- Identity. --- Languages --- History. --- Cultural Studies. --- Jewish Studies. --- Literature. --- Medieval and Renaissance Studies. --- Religion.